[tor-relays] Tools for managing multiple relays

[Cristian Consonni]

2015-10-14 23:00 GMT+02:00 Tim Wilson-Brown - teor <teor2345 at gmail.com>:
>
> On 15 Oct 2015, at 07:55, Cristian Consonni <kikkocristian at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am currently running three small relays on two different services/ISPs.
>
> I have two somewhat unrelated questions:
> * given costant resource (i.e. euro/month) I can afford to run relays
> is it in general better to run one bigger relay or, say, two smaller
> ones.
>
>
> One bigger relay - more bandwidth, less latency, and less work for you,
> unless… you are providing diversity of locations (geographic or AS),
> operating systems, or configurations with your multiple relays.

I am providing geographic diversity, yes.

> * are there any tools to manage multiple tor node? For example, if I
> want to check if there are security updates I have to login separately
> in each system and launch them manually. Is this the way I should do
> this or there are ways to monitor the status of all my nodes and
> maintaing them as a whole.
>
>
> Debian has an unattended-upgrades package that will even restart the machine
> when needed, if configured to do so.
> (I think there’s another package for the restarts.)
> It will also send emails every time it upgrades a package.
>
> You might want to consider also doing Tor version upgrades this way, but
> I’ve found that it's best to do them manually but regularly, then check they
> worked. Others might have better experiences with automated Tor upgrades.

thanks for the advice.

Cristian